Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn